Straw Poll: How much for broadband and landline? ?

Newquay £99 is exactly what I paid Virgin prior to changing.
It included all my landline calls; broadband; and the best TV package including BT Sport, Sky Cinema and Sky Sports

It also depends on your address. A lot of companies advertise offers that I'd love to take up but our estate is not wired up to receive them.

DH is in charge of this so I have NO idea what’s going on -except we pay about £99(!) a month to Sky.
It’s a painful subject whenever I raise it-he keeps saying we can’t do any better!
Time to pull up my big girl pants and check it out myself!!

I'm with BT

Broadband, Fibre 1
Mobile, 4GB, included a new Iphone 6SE
Landline

£35 a month

Thanks Maggie

Apparently for my TV I need a minimum of 10mbps

FannyCornforth

I’m totally ignorant about broadband speed, and I think that it may be important as I’ve got a Sky Glass tv which runs off the internet.

I’ve read somewhere on the virgin website that if I leave them, I won’t be able to use my email address ([email protected])

Does that sound right??

When I left Talk Talk they said I could keep my email address, when I switched from BT they said I would lose it. I’ve still got both.

I’ve been with them for 16 years. It’s disgusting how they try to rip you off isn’t it?

I agree. It’s so annoying to see them offering deals to entice new customers which are half the price they try to charge loyal customers of many years. They tried to increase my package from £40 to £60 this year. So, I felt satisfied to negotiate downwards to £33 which was their new customer price that day.

I’m totally ignorant about broadband speed, and I think that it may be important as I’ve got a Sky Glass tv which runs off the internet.

I’ve read somewhere on the virgin website that if I leave them, I won’t be able to use my email address ([email protected])

Does that sound right??

Kim19

I pay £19 with JL. Think you might be able to cancel under cooling off period rules???

Yes, thanks Kim, I’ve looked at the details, and yes I can cancel.
It doesn’t even start until 26th January, so I’m not overly worried.

Thanks Gnw, I will do that. I’ll also mention that I’ve mentioned it on ‘social media’ (ie here!)

I’ve been with them for 16 years. It’s disgusting how they try to rip you off isn’t it?

We have Unlimited Fibre broadband and line rental from Plusnet for £21.95 a month. No TV or calls because we don’t need them.

FannyCornforth remember to select the “thinking of leaving us” option when you phone them. They’re the team with the discounts. Before calling them it would be worthwhile googling for today’s current offers by some of their competitors such as BT and TalkTalk. Then they know you’ve done your research and will hopefully price match. Don’t be put off by the automated message saying high call numbers and suggesting you use their website instead. Good luck!

Thank you so much everyone.
I’m definitely tackling it today.
I’ll let you know how I get on.

£26.00 per month for unlimited landline calls and broadband with Virgin Media. I have no t.v. and so didn't need or want that package adding on.

I pay £19 with JL. Think you might be able to cancel under cooling off period rules???

With virgin. £27 per month. TV and Internet.
You don’t have to have a landline.
Just a little tip. If you feel that your internet speed is running slower, call them to check it. They slow it down ?.
Amazingly it reverts to speed your paying for.

BT give you 30 days to cancel.

BT £52 that includes, line rental, 150 speed, call outs and resolving internal faults, 700 mins a month for calls including to those to mobiles, my mobile phone with unlimited calls (landline and mobiles), texts and 10GB data.

Just gone onto a comparative site and BT still comes out on top for us BT are the only ones that can access the superfast cable that's just been laid. We live in a very rural area.

Price is fixed for two years.

£15/month for Post Office landline only.
£15/month for 50GB data + 5000 texts + 5000 mins calls on Tesco Mobile.
I use the mobile hotspot to give internet access to my laptop, as the broadband kept conking out so I stopped having it.

Esspee

I negotiated a £22.95 deal with TalkTalk a year or two ago for super fast broadband, landline with inclusive U.K. calls to landlines and mobiles. It is going up to £31.26 a month in January I have been told.
Oh no it’s not!
No way am I agreeing to that. They start back to work on Thursday and I’ll be giving them a call then.

Just negotiated a new deal with TalkTalk. I've exactly same deal now for £22-95. Land-line, broadband. UK free calls up to 60 mins free.

I’m with Virgin. I pay £33 a month for broadband, tv package, tv 360 box and landline. My landline is on the basic plan so free weekend calls only. I have unlimited calls on my mobile so apart from the odd incoming call it’s not used. I enquired about removing landline but it was only going to reduce bill by £2 a month so I kept it in case of mobile problems.

My broadband was 100 speed but when Virgin recently joined forces with O2 they gave all customers who are with both a free upgrade. So I’ve now got 200 speed broadband and my mobile data was doubled up from 30 to 60gb on my £8 mobile contract.

Each time my Virgin contract is in its last few weeks I always phone them and select the “thinking of leaving” option. That gets you through to the team who have the authority to offer the best deal to stop you leaving. I’ve been doing that for 10 years and secured a discount every year.

Virgin £43, broadband, TV, landline and Mobile. I do not actually have a landline phone but the package had to include it.

Mine finishes in March then I am going to switch to just broadband, I have Now, Apple TV and it is a smart TV so do not really need the TV package.

Forsythia

BT without TV but includes total internet access and all calls plus 700 extra minutes a month £55. Just upgraded. We don’t need the TV package.

700 extra minutes of what Forsythia? You are being robbed.

I negotiated a £22.95 deal with TalkTalk a year or two ago for super fast broadband, landline with inclusive U.K. calls to landlines and mobiles. It is going up to £31.26 a month in January I have been told.
Oh no it’s not!
No way am I agreeing to that. They start back to work on Thursday and I’ll be giving them a call then.

Forgot to add, in our road the Virgin users have nothing but problems so we are quite happy with BT.